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Global Climate ChangePerspectives on Nature and the Environment

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Global Climate ChangeUnless otherwise noted, all slides are from a presentation developed by Katharine Hayhoe, a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech UniversityShe was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as was awarded a Nobel Prize as part of that group. Her full presentation and other info is available athttp://katharinehayhoe.com/

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What experiment can we conduct to “prove” that human activity is causing global warming?We only have one planet, so we can’t do a controlled, replicated, manipulative experiment?Thus, we have to rely on mathematical models.